Does anyone know why my leg is all numb? It's scaring me and I don't know if I should go to the doctors .

Question

For 4 days now I've had this wierd numbness mostly in my right thigh, but sometimes all the way down my whole right leg. i have a small cancerous mole on my same thigh that is numb, but i don't know if that has something to do with it or not. Can someone help please.. thanks

Answer 1

You could have a pinched nerve either in the lower back or your syatic nerve could be pinched( its the nerve running from your hip to your leg) Seek out a osteopath, they are better than a chiropracter.

Answer 2

if you're getting any type of chemo and are vomiting a lot, you could be getting dehydrated which can thicken your blood. don't mean to be an alarmist, but the numbness could be from a blood clot in your brain. it probably is just a pinched nerve, but to be safe i'd get to the doctor ASAP. the american heart assn recommends you have someone tell you a fairly simple story, but with a number of details. then you repeat the story to them. also, try raising both arms up high and have your friend look to see if there's any variation between the two. Lastly, smile at them to see if either side of your mouth/face droops. if you "flunk" -- CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY.

don't mean to freak you out, but i wish someone had told me. for me, it was my hand going numb and not functioning quite right. when i called my doc and asked if i should be concerned, she told me that if i wanted to i could go to the ER, but was very blase about it. like a fool, i did nothing until 2 days later when my face started going numb. turns out i had a large clot in my brain that would have killed me had they not done an experimental treatment to break up the clot. unfortunately they had to give me so much of the drug to break up the clot, i wound up having a hemorrhagic stroke that left me completely paralyzed on the right side of my body and unable to speak. thank the good Lord, i was able to get most of it back and i'm still alive and kicking 11 years later.

sorry to blather on, but as you can tell, this strikes very deep in my heart.

Answer 3

Why are you driving yourself nuts worrying about this stuff, when you should be seeing a professional about it?

The numbness is probably sciaticca from a pinched nerve in your lower back. See a chiropractor.
Instead of guessing that your mole is cancerous, why don't you go see if it really is?

Answer 4

Go get it checked out right away. I don't mean to scare you but my friends father in law started getting numbness in his legs and did nothing about it for about a month till he could hardly get up. Turns out he had brain cancer. Do not wait. Any type of numbness should be looked at.

Answer 5

Go to the doctor. How do you know that the mole is cancerous? Have you already seen a doctor? Don't waste anymore time worrying about it - go see a professional and let them figure it out.

Answer 6

There could be many things happening. Without seeing a doctor and having some test run it is not safe to "guess" at what may be happening.

Don't take the risk...It will cost you more in the long run if you wait and it turns out to be something major.

Good luck

Answer 7

I had this same tingling sensation on the side of my thigh. It bothered me so much I had a dermatologist check it out, but he said he couldn't find anything wrong. It did go away.

I'm not saying you shouldn't see a doctor, but that's my story.

Answer 8

You need to see your doctor right away, you may have hurt your back, among other things.This is not something that you let go.

Answer 9

It might be a pinched nerve in your back....go to a chiropractor.

Answer 10

Sounds to me that it is a compressed nerve.go to a chiropractor.